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Key Ingredients to Writing Success: Time and Practice
There are two main ingredients to writing success, the first is time, the second is practice.
Writing: How to Curb Bad Habits
Bad habits can put road blocks in your writing success path. Find out how to curb self-defeating patterns.
7 Steps to Creating a Successful Writing Career
If you are selling books, you have a business, even if just a simple sole proprietorship.
Talking Yourself Into Success or Out of It
I had a client who, after the book was almost complete, began to talk herself out of the project. Keep in mind this had nothing to do with money – the project was already paid for. The client simply began second-guessing herself. She wondered will there be a market for her story. She wondered if…
3 Tips to Help Launch Your Writing Career
Your story begins with an idea, an idea that has come from one of your own experiences or someone’s experience that you’ve observed. To write your story, you first need to do your homework: read up on writing for children, read other authors’ books in your genre, take courses, go to conferences, join a critique…
Writing Success – You Have to Walk the Walk
“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” ~ Anatole France There are so many amazing quotes out there that focus in on what needs to be done to succeed in business (writing is a business), and does it in a sentence or two. The…
7 Steps to Writing Success Through Positive Thinking
Can you think your way to success? Is it really possible? Whether you call it positive thinking, a positive attitude, or a winning mindset, in regard to writing it’s the strategy of having a dream, creating a plan, projecting the positive results of that plan, and taking the necessary actions to accomplish your goal. Part…
Make Success a Habit with 3 Doable Steps
We all fall into the “I don’t think I can” hole now and then. It’s interesting how a lot of writers and people in general have negative thoughts throughout the day: – I’m tired. – This is too hard. – I don’t have enough time. – I’m not good enough. – This is overwhelming. –…
Writing a Successful Children’s Series – 3 Key Elements
This is Part2 of writing a children’s series. And, if you’re a children’s writer of chapter books, middle grade, or young adult you can write one. To write a series, you need three things: 1. Strong characters In a ‘live’ workshop, Scholastic senior editor Matt Ringler noted that the most important element of a series…